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Dee Forbes banging the RTE TV licence drum again 60m uncollected fee *poll not working - pl ignore*

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  • #11002
    Serena Enough Pension
    Posts: 0 ✭ Serena Enough Pension


    I can actually understand Mattie McGrath this time.



  • #11003
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,441 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767162#Comment_121767162

    It nearly looks like 3D ashes, some new modern take on the traditional.



  • #11004
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767170#Comment_121767170

    Going on about chickens and roosters. Actually forgot it was Ash Wednesday until see the big black spot on Mattie's head.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • #11005
    Serena Enough Pension
    Posts: 0 ✭ Serena Enough Pension


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767054#Comment_121767054

    Remember Maria Bailey’s advisor, these coaches too often fail at helping people whose egos are in overdrive.



  • #11006
    CH3OH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    Dee was not well enough to get to the church

    Just used a sticker instead

    SmartSelect_20240214_144427_Chrome.jpg




  • #11007
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    295 Employees with a Bogus Self Employment.

    Pony up and face de music says Mattie.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • #11008
    Serena Enough Pension
    Posts: 0 ✭ Serena Enough Pension


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767206#Comment_121767206

    She’s a Cork Proddy, do they do de Ashes, so to speak? 🧐



  • #11009
    kazamo
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭kazamo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767114#Comment_121767114

    Eimear Cusack in RTE since 2017, so highly unlikely to “accrue” a 400-500k package that quickly.

    That “Voluntary Exit Package” deal has well and truely sailed with Breda O Keeffe letting it slip last year…..…..the current head of HR would be replaced by another head of HR, so any package will be gone through with a fine tooth comb, and the position would not be redundant.

    They used to get away with that, but not anymore…….same with private sector who pulled the same stunt, head of finance made redundant, but new head of finance incoming. The Revenue Commissioners are a rather unobservant lot from personal experience.



  • #11010
    CH3OH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    Maria is normally quite good!



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  • #11011
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121763763#Comment_121763763

    well...i can make grumpy faces and look pissed off on que and all for a LOT less then hes on...like the time bumble bee man took over from kent brockman...


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?



  • #11012
    kazamo
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭kazamo


    The non attendees pose an interesting dilemma for these committees.

    Various TD’s have sprouted on over the years that attendance is mandatory, yet when Angela Kearns went to court, the defence was, she was not obligated to show up, despite grandstanding from Mary Lou and Shane to the contrary.

    Would be good to see what the powers are.


    Also Dail privilege needs to be curtailed……calling someone a liar in front of tv cameras is a cheap shot.



  • #11013
    CH3OH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    Someone had got a load of timber for free....


    Probably paid to take it away


    (The toy show musical set)



  • #11014
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    They had advertising going for the Toy Show before they had hired a script writer or gotten anyone to write the songs.

    1. Advertise for Toy Show the Musical
    2. ????
    3. Profit!


  • #11015
    Serena Enough Pension
    Posts: 0 ✭ Serena Enough Pension


    They probably would have done better with a “Meet the Toyman” show, packed a venue full of parents & kids, every child gets a present going out. Santa appears on stage alongside the Toyman, then the Billy Barry’s do a few numbers, kids collect gifts on way out. Not too much prep, Tubridy would only be required on for 20 minutes each night, maybe run it a few times coming up to Christmas.



  • #11016
    Serena Enough Pension
    Posts: 0 ✭ Serena Enough Pension


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767255#Comment_121767255

    Didn’t Mattie say on previous appearance “liar” only he was trying to say “lawyer” or something similar. 🤣



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  • #11017
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    Eimear Cusack is side tracking on the savings. The Revenue rules are the Role must be made redundant for 6 Months. Therefore they would not hire a new CFO for 6 Months. This is basic HR 101.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • #11018
    kazamo
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭kazamo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767289#Comment_121767289

    Not sure……anytime Mattie shows up, I turn off the feed…..Alan Dillon and his fascination with GAAGO has the same result 🤣

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


  • #11019
    CH3OH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,404 ✭✭✭CH3OH


    A comfort break....

    All into a room for a group hug



  • #11020
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767309#Comment_121767309

    Time for Cusack to pop an anti-depressant.



  • #11021
    CollyFlower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭CollyFlower


    Who is the bully that was "moved to the side"? 



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  • #11022
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767088#Comment_121767088

    said it before...face on her like a well slapped arse.....has she been spotted any where? where are all the fearless truth-seeking reporters??? id say if she had a dose of chronic farting george lee would be reporting from her door!!

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Paul on


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?



  • #11023
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767301#Comment_121767301

    That's what I thought that if someone is being made redundant is because the role no longer exists. Maybe RTE were trying to see if they could get away without a CFO because it looks like they didn't have one anyway with the carry on of Forbes and Coveney



  • #11024
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    Under Tubs, The Toy Show, year on year had dwindling numbers of toys. DOes anyone know were there actually any toys in Toy Show the Musical. The Convention Centre would work well for a Toy Expo. Get all the toy manufacturers to pay to display their toys, free or a small nominal fee for visitors, Sponsored by Renault, have the Billy Barrys doing a performance somewhere. All the kids go home with a small toy.

    Could be a real money maker.

    Toy Show the Musical, with no toys, and the script writer finished the script the day before it launched, was doomed to fail from day one.



  • #11025
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767344#Comment_121767344

    It's the whole senior management in the organisation, they all seem to not want to question anything Forbes did. Now maybe this is institutional in RTE that the DG is some sort of Pope like figure and should not be questioned. Actually i would extend to the public Service as a whole because it seems Sec Gens have the same sort of hold as well.



  • #11026
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Fund the News and current affairs programs and pay per view for the other muck they show.



  • #11027
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767400#Comment_121767400

    News and Current Affairs RTE actually do very well.

    Imported Australian soaps, RTE Junior, aka the Peppa Pig Channel, etc can all go pay per view IMO. Though I wouldnt hold my breathe for a large number of subscribers. In some houses the choice between RTE Sub or Disney+ is an easy decision to make.



  • #11028
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    Mr Coveney got an 'Exit Package' when he resigned. It would only happen on the RTE Gravy Train.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • #11029
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Jaysus Coveney and Forbes were a law unto themselves.



  • #11030
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,597 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767374#Comment_121767374

    I don't think the script was actually critically panned. The problem with TSTM and it's failure was because RTE didn't understand it's audience.

    The toy show is popular these days largely because of nostalgia - in many ways it's for adults really. An expensive new musical doesn't hit those right buttons.

    The mad thing is they thought their toy show brand was so strong that it couldn't fail - a brand that had never been tested outside of a TV special.



  • #11031
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Who is the person on video link? He has been forgotten about.



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  • #11032
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    Breada O'Keefee got an Exit Package of 450K

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • #11033
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767517#Comment_121767517

    He spoke for ten minutes but didnt realise he was on mute.

    🤣



  • #11034
    Kaisr Sose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,260 ✭✭✭Kaisr Sose


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767527#Comment_121767527

    Substantial...



  • #11035
    bigroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,159 ✭✭✭bigroad


    Getting down to the big payouts now.

    We can round it off to half a million each.



  • #11036
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    It never comes across well when they use the "confidentiality" excuse.



  • #11037
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    RTE will pay Breada O'Keefee Tax Bill. This 'Tax' will also have to be Taxed as a BIK. Madness, as all Breada's tax allowances will be elsewhere, so RTE will have to pay an Extra (40+8+4.10+11.15) 63.25 percent.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • #11038
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭mountain


    The whole place was like the Wild West. No accountability, no morals, and lashings of tax payers money to be spent without any consequences



  • #11039
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767570#Comment_121767570

    That was my thinking when Backhurst was saying that the place was run in an adhoc way. All I was thinking they are a bunch of cowboys.



  • #11040
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    Joe would be included in the 55 On Air Ltd companies.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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  • #11041
    kazamo
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭kazamo


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767477#Comment_121767477

    TD’s and their support staff get the €4.4 million paid out to staff of TDs who left Leinster House following the last election

    199 former staff shared in the redundancy payouts, with eight ex-employees receiving packages worth more than €100,000 apiece.


    https://www.thejournal.ie/redundancy-payments-staff-dail-eireann-3522357-Jul2017/

    Not just for RTE apparently.

    If TD’s make a big deal about this, maybe they should sort out their own house first.



  • #11042
    mountain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭mountain


    So Rory Coveney squanders 2million, resigns from RTE and gets a “package”, and RTE can’t disclose how much he got.

    Seems that nothing has changed in RTE



  • #11043
    Baba Yaga
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭Baba Yaga


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767564#Comment_121767564

    em...probably a stupid question but why do i (and everyone else paying taxes and rte gets a whole ****-ton of taxpayers money!) have to pay her tax bill?


    "They gave me an impossible task,one which they said I wouldnt return from...."

    ps wheres my free,fancy rte flip-flops...?

    pps wheres my wheres my rte macaroons,kevin?



  • #11044
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    Surely not providing the information when requested has to be fraud. Surely the management need to provide financial information when requested by relevant parties.

    This FG Senator is being unfair on the Risk person, fair play to her for standing up to him.



  • #11045
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767623#Comment_121767623

    Taxes are only for the little people.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



  • #11046
    Tow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,099 ✭✭✭Tow


    On the same reasoning, I could never understand how Siun was allowed on the RTE Board.

    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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  • #11047
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767560#Comment_121767560

    In a Public Organisation? No.



  • #11048
    Floppybits
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,736 ✭✭✭Floppybits


    It comes across that Coveney was paid to leave. I hate that, they should have left him there to rot



  • #11049
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 83,441 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Throwing around public money like there's no tomorrow and being able to keep the actual amounts to each person secret and this is after the goings on of the last year, wtf.



  • #11050
    Furze99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,392 ✭✭✭✭Furze99


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767581#Comment_121767581

    Even cowboys are answerable to the sheriff though. When does the law catch up on these RTE chancers?



  • #11051
    LambshankRedemption
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,140 ✭✭✭LambshankRedemption



    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121767663#Comment_121767663

    I am sure there are many TDs, sports referees and people in a whole host of other roles who would love to be anonymous due to the nature of their work. There are some ugly people out there, who can take professional decisions personally.

    If you want anonymity, don't join the board of the National Broadcaster.



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